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... A student newspaper doesn t event have any real commercial pressures, which had made the reasoning behind the article replacement more understandable. I m

Message 1 of 5
, Oct 5, 1998

>I write the Matmos article (they were the first to get back to me
>which was very good of them), lay it out on the page and everything,
>having been given the all-clear by the next guy up on the hierarchy,
>next thing I know the editor tells me that 'this week's music page
>isn't really what we're looking for', pulls the Matmos one because
>'we don't really want articles on bands no-one's heard of', replaces
>it with one featuring The Unbelievable Truth on the grounds that it's
>band he's heard of (he's not too clued up on music, it must be said)
>and effectively fires me.
>
>And I'm mightily pissed off about it! Now we have a music section
>that looks like every other student paper music section, all of which
>are modelled on the truly ghastly Melody Maker.
>
>So- what do you think of this whole thing?
>

A student newspaper doesn't event have any real commercial pressures, which
had made the reasoning behind the article replacement more understandable.
I'm sorry for your sake. Running a student paper in the style of a
commercial-we-only-want-to-make-more-money newspaper make no sense to me.

Publish the article here on the mailinglist. I'm sure it will be more
appreciated here than by your evil boss...

anders.

John

Hello all, Sorry to watse bandwidth with a bit of a prattle on here but I just have to get this off my chest. I m a student, it s the new term, I d just

Message 2 of 5
, Oct 5, 1998

Hello all,

Sorry to watse bandwidth with a bit of a prattle on here but I
just have to get this off my chest.

I'm a student, it's the new term, I'd just started out as music
editor on the student newspaper here. Now, two weeks in and I've
been SACKED as music editor. Why could this be? Well, it's quite
simple. I wanted to run a column, not a particularly big one, but a
column nonetheless introducing my favourite bands, many of whom you
can read about in The Wire, to an audience which is unfamiliar with
them. I wasn't going to give the entire section of the paper over
to these bands, just some short coverage. So, I spent most of August
and September trying to track down the likes of Matmos, Ui and Tone
Rec (to name just three) for short interviews.

I write the Matmos article (they were the first to get back to me
which was very good of them), lay it out on the page and everything,
having been given the all-clear by the next guy up on the hierarchy,
next thing I know the editor tells me that 'this week's music page
isn't really what we're looking for', pulls the Matmos one because
'we don't really want articles on bands no-one's heard of', replaces
it with one featuring The Unbelievable Truth on the grounds that it's
band he's heard of (he's not too clued up on music, it must be said)
and effectively fires me.

And I'm mightily pissed off about it! Now we have a music section
that looks like every other student paper music section, all of which
are modelled on the truly ghastly Melody Maker.

So- what do you think of this whole thing?

NB - Please don't attempt to flame the paper, I'm still writing for
it and they'll blacklist me for life if they find out I sent this.
Luckily, none of them even know this group exists.

JOHN

Mark Coyle

Hi ... typical of the modern, commercial, thrusting, bland students of today with no fire in their belly. Cheers Mark

Message 3 of 5
, Oct 5, 1998

Hi

>So- what do you think of this whole thing?

typical of the modern, commercial, thrusting, bland students of today with
no fire in their belly.

Cheers
Mark

jk from mpls

... week s music page ... Matmos one because ... heard of , replaces ... grounds that it s ... it must be said) ... Well, tell him that he s failed in his own

Well, tell him that he's failed in his own right
because I've never heard of The Unbelievable Truth,
but I know of Matmos!

Anyway, if you're feeling a bit energetic you could
pull a little stunt. Print up your article on a
newsprint insert (this is assuming that your student
paper is printed on newsprint), and trek on down to
the newspaper's distribution station bright & early
at 4 AM and place the flier in as many issues of the
paper as you can. Then it will be delivered as "part
of the paper" after all. Since you are a newspaper
employee, no one would stop you from doing it (like
the editor is gonna be out of bed yet; he's gonna
leave all the grunt work to everyone else). The
distribution staff would assume it was a last minute
ad they forgot to include. Heh heh. You could also
just print them on standard copy paper & place them
in issues as well. I used to go around the campus
early on the day the special entertainment section
was distributed and place my own articles & fliers in
the issues that were sitting out so that everyone
would be able to read my own contributions. Never got
busted ...

mltsnt

... ...hey man i ll be starting up a tiny zine here (though i ve yet to decide if it ll be WEB or PHYSICAL) and i d love to print your matmos interview... mlt/

Message 5 of 5
, Oct 9, 1998

At 05:07 PM 10/5/98 GMT0BST, you wrote:

>I write the Matmos article (they were the first to get back to me
>which was very good of them), lay it out on the page and everything,
>having been given the all-clear by the next guy up on the hierarchy,
>next thing I know the editor tells me that 'this week's music page
>isn't really what we're looking for', pulls the Matmos one because
>'we don't really want articles on bands no-one's heard of'

...hey man i'll be starting up a tiny zine here (though i've yet to decide
if it'll be WEB or PHYSICAL) and i'd love to print your matmos interview...